A fairly easy bat cave to visit in Thailand where you can experience the thrill of being close to lots of bats without the over-powering atmosphere of the really big colonies...

GIF video plus sample frames of the blur of wrinkle-lipped bats flying out of a cave in Thailand

Macro photography of the detail of a weathered roadside sign in Thailand

The other day, I read a book written by a university professor about human evolution, focusing on the transition from Paleolithic hunters and gatherers to Neolithic farmers and stockbreeders. I was struck

Collection of macro photographs of banana leaf details

A digital collage of a cormorant with a fish created from macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces. I also made a physical version.

A very close look at a family of Tokay geckos living outside our house in Thailand. Filmed using an endoscope/borescope that plugs directly into a smartphone.

Dwarf honey bees in our garden in Thailand with a contrast of sunshine and rain at their free-hanging comb nest

Our local ground squirrels taking mango seeds into our roofspace for storage requires an almighty leap!

Collection of collage characters I made from trash collected from our local roadsides

Collection of my artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

Collection of artworks created from macro photographs of urban decay

At present I am addicted to taking photographs of the fallen leaves around our garden. As long as the sun is shining then twice a day I am out there at ground level with my camera resting on a little sandbag.

The technique is to lie on the ground and take photographs with the longest telephoto lens you have got...

Macro shots of weathered urban surfaces found along the roadside during a recent cycling trip in Thailand

This was a challenge that kind of crept up on us but left me wanting to go back for more. Every year, a friend and I go cycling for up to a week somewhere in Thailand during the cool season.

This was an experiment to see what I could come up with from a single leaf shape and a single photograph. The maple leaf was drawn as a vector shape in Illustrator and the photograph was a close-up of

An illustration of a barred owlet briefly hanging upside down having just snatched a grasshopper on a twig - as seen in my garden recently

A collage-illustration of a robin that happens to look quite Christmassy

A digital collage of leaves in the style of a gelliplate print